Sugar of the Crop: Interviews with Children of Slaves
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Journalist and author Sana Butler spent nearly ten years crisscrossing the country locating the last surviving African Americans whose parents were born in slavery. In this poignant and moving presentation, Butler discusses and reads from her book "Sugar of the Crop."
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